So lets plan now.
Perhaps you will be at work, or finding time to vote, or volunteering with get-out-the-vote efforts.
If so: Let those distract you.
Focus on the task to be done.
And don’t forget to vote!
Double check your registration status and your states laws now, if you haven’t already.
Consider voting early if you’ve got the option to.
But it can be helpful to engage in cautious optimism,experts have told us.
This way you get the mental benefits of allowing yourself to hope for the best.
It also helps to think through the possible scenarios.
If Trump wins, what will you do?
How can you mentally plan for that?
How will you react if Harris wins?
What if the election is too close to call or is legally contested for weeks or months on end?
How will you mentally get through that time?
Thinking about best-case and worst-case outcomes can help us feel grounded and prepared no matter what happens.
Recounts may push the certification dates even later.
One of the things that may help the most is to know who you could talk to.
Maybe somebody will have given a concession speech during the night.
Or perhaps millions of votes will remain to be counted, the election unable to be called.
Decide for yourself how much bullshit you want to endure, and put a number on it.
If youre up until midnight, will that still allow you a reasonable amount of sleep?
Decide now what is thelatestyou will allow yourself to stay up.
Or perhaps you love yourself and want to be as happy as possible under the circumstances.
Do bedtime right
At the very least, you oughta turn off your notifications.
But you have time to plan.
Revisit your controls now.
And specifically, think through what your phone might look like when you wake up.
Do you want to see all the nights news alerts, or would you rather turn them off?
